A Stone is Nobody’s references a poem of the same title by Russell
Edson. In the poem, a mother speaks to her son, who has taken a stone as
his property, telling him that “a stone is nobody’s, not even its own.”

Situated directly across from Janice Kerbel’s wallpaper piece, A Stone
Is Nobody’s is a screen printed hanging banner, a curtain draped against
a window, a large piece of wallpaper sagging off a wall, or even a
giant cryptic map. Mysterious and elusive, like an
ancient document yet to be decoded, the composition depicts an interior
domestic space whose the objects have unfamiliar properties: the lamp
gives off darkness, for example, and the perspective of the room is
distorted.

With this work, the artist depicts a duality inherent
in domestic life: our homes and objects are transitory, temporary
structures that offer us sentimental value, helping to ward off feelings
of isolation and loneliness. This piece struggles with the desire to
find a place to belong to without claiming ownership to that place.